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...through the lens of gender and race, a book about Abu Ghraib and black conservatives, and an Austen-style novel set in the U.S. This fall, she’ll teach at Vanderbilt University as a writer in residence.“She’s a little dynamo,” said Joan T. Bok ’51, former chairman of the Board of Overseers and a mentor to Randall. Bok met Randall more than 25 years ago through her son, Alexander, and since then the family has hosted Randall on vacation. The woman she considers her daughter...
...Outside the courtroom, there was little sympathy for the son of a Baptist preacher who created a business dynamo that crashed in late 2001, or for his protege, Jeffrey Skilling, 52, who himself faces 185 years for his 19 out of 28 guilty counts - including conspiracy, securities and wire fraud. ?It was a moral victory. Now we hope to get them an economic victory,? said Steve Berman, one of the attorneys representing pensioners ruined by Enron?s demise. In addition to $7.2 billion wrung out of banks like JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup in securities fraud litigation, employees are still waiting...
...audiences. However, although the instrument has long been revered in countries such as Germany, Finland and Japan, in Britain it has been considered to be rather silly. It has taken the pluck of the willfully eccentric, 21-year-old Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain to move the four-stringed dynamo toward mainstream recognition...
...audiences. However, although the instrument has long been revered in countries such as Germany, Finland and Japan, in Britain it has been considered to be rather silly. It has taken the pluck of the willfully eccentric, 21-year-old Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain to move the four-stringed dynamo toward mainstream recognition. From humble beginnings in a room above a London pub, the Ukulele Orchestra is today a regular at British festivals such as Glastonbury and the Hay Festival of Literature. All consummate singers and strummers, they perform their own compositions, as well as covers of popular songs that...
...foundering local UHF television station. In 1976 he started bouncing its signals off a satellite to cable-TV systems across the U.S. The result: Super-Station WTBS, which now reaches some 34 million viewers and last year earned profits of $65.8 million on sales of $177.4 million. The Atlanta dynamo also owns the local Braves baseball club and most of the Hawks basketball team. Both teams have respectable records but do not make any profits...